PlIALGA.— LUGAXA. 145 



middle branch from its end, lower at one third before the end ; submedian and internal 

 vein recur\ed. Body moderate, abdomen laterally tufted ; palpi ascending, not extending 

 above the head, second joint stout, third slender ; fore tibia laxly tufted ; antennae filiform. 

 Allied to Liueojjal pa, Guenee. 



rilALliA SINLOS.V. 



Vhuhja siniiosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. S";"*, pi. xxxvii. fig. 7. 



Fore wing pale dull brownish-ochrcous, with a very indistinct black-specivled-bordercd 

 pale zigzag subbasal transverse line, a more distinct black treble discal acute-angled zigzag 

 line, a snbmarginal single line, and less distinct marginal limnlar line ; a pale-yellowish 

 reniform mark ; hind wing ochreons-brown ; cilia brownish-ochreous ; a slender black 

 marginal lunular line and streaks above anal angle. Body ])rownish-ochreous ; thorax, 

 palpi, and fore legs ochreous-brown. 



Expanse 1} inch. 



Ilab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudingcr. 



LUGAXA, n. g. 



Male. Fore wing somewhat short, costa slightly curved ; exterior margin oblique, 

 slightly convex ; posterior margin convex towards the base ; costal vein recurved, extending 

 to two thirds the margin ; first subcostal emitted at nearly one half before end of the cell, 

 second at one eighth before the end, third and fourth at nearly equal distances from base of 

 second, fifth from end of the cell and curved upward and touching the third neiu: its base ; 

 discocellulars oblique, deeply concave in the middle, bent at each end, radials from the 

 angles; cell long, extending rather more than half tlie wing; upper median from angle 

 above end of the cell, middle median from very near its end, and lower at nearly one half 

 before its end ; submedian curved near its base. Hind wing short ; exterior margin convex, 

 abdominal margin short ; costal vein slightly waved ; subcostal straight, its two branches 

 from one third beyond end of the cell ; discocellular slender, obliquely concave, radial from 

 its middle; cell broad ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one tliird before 

 the end ; submedian and internal veins straight. Body moderately stout, abdomen long, 

 with dorsal and lateral tufts ; palpi laxly scpiamous, second joint very long, ascending t(j 

 vertex, third joint short and tliick ; fore and middle tibiic pilose above, hind femora ami 

 tibiic densely tufted ; antennaj grooved and twisted from tlie base, and dilating into a broad 

 rounded cavity in the middle, and from the cavity to the tip slender, its base finely 

 serrate-pectinate, with longer and broader serrations from tlie cavity and thence decreasing 

 to the tip. 



Type L. antennata. 



